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''BBC May Replace News Channel with Mobile Streaming''
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Hints at the Edinburgh TV Festival that the BBC News channel may be closed as part of the proposed cuts and replaced with news being streamed to mobiles.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/26/bbc-considers-replacing-news-24-with-mobile-streaming-service
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/26/bbc-considers-replacing-news-24-with-mobile-streaming-service
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The internet is actually annoying and often expensive. It's the specific services that are on the internet that is the attraction.
Moving a social irrelevancy online will not make it relevant, it'll still be ignored.
Using flash for video content on mobiles devices is very out dated now but the BBC seems to have not moved with the times.
There was a big 'if' in this discussion. A suggestion that if the government reneged on its promises regarding the licence fee settlement, then this is one of the services that would be under threat. It is on record the Tony Hall is firmly of the opinion that the BBC News Channel should remain on terrestrial television for the foreseeable future.
What James harding wants is the BBC News site full of video content that nobody likes and a rolling news channel that broadcasts to every country apart from the UK which leaves Sky News (who have fewer viewers than BBC News channel) as the sole UK provider of 24 hour breaking news. It's to be wondered whose side the former editor of The Times is really on.
For some time now I have had the impression that Harding' s knowledge of how television works is akin to my knowledge of nuclear physics - wasn't he behind the Victoria Derbyshire radio programme on TV ?
The Times?? Hmmm. Part of News Corp ie Sky. Maybe he is working as a secret agent lol. But in all seriousness the Beeb needs to amalgamate the BBC News Channel and BBC World. All they need to do is split the feeds for domestic and intl audiences so the latter gets the commercials.
BBC World News is a great TV news channel that I would dip into occasionally on the net. Only having overnight plus a couple of hours daytime is a crying shame.
That would save very little, and would kill off something that is pure PSB (i.e. what the BBC should be doing).
Total cost 2014-15 was £10.1 million (Annual Report, page 139)
When simulcasting, BBC News has a UK specific story when World goes to a break.
As with all the other non-PSB stuff (such as BBC1 in prime time), just take it out of the PSB remit and allow the BBC to run ads to pay for it, leaving the taxation element solely for the non-commercial part of the service.
Given that his time frame is ten years, with streaming services becoming more and more prevalent, then it won't just be mobiles that can pick it up, it will be the promised expansion of iPlayer once the charter has sorted itself out- so by that time most smart TV's will pick it up as well.
Seems a good solution to me.
If it was "entertainment" then don't you think that Sky would have monetised their own service?
We've got two smart TV's, two Nowtv boxes, an Amazon Fire box, tablets and smartphones and we can watch all BBC channels live, including News on the IPlayer.
The sort of places I've seen it, I can't really remember them all but they weren't choosing Sky News! The local chippy believe it or not, doctors surgeries, taxi ranks, I can't remember them all but I've seen BBC News on a lot!
What a load of... oh never mind.
I mean... seriously. Why do some people insist on posting stuff that's so obviously simply wrong?
We used to mange without this 24/7 news before,
And "not changing that much" is ideal for a rolling news channel! the contents get repeated so that people can catch up, but can be updated quickly when stories break.
Sometimes people don't just want "really important" news stories.
And we used to manage without Sunday shopping, without major supermarkets being open 24x7, without supermarkets even. We also used to manage without the internet!
But times change, expectations change.
Nothing is stopping people watching news on TV, There is news on the main channels at certain points of the day and every half hour or so on the radio.
The less said about Sunday opening hours the better and 24 /7 for that matter.
It is the BBc who are complaining they are short of money, if that is the case then shut the 24/7 news channel down, it is not required. Also there are plenty of other news channels on TV.